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see, the reason i don't stress about whether baby boy sees screens or not is because we have yet to introduce any kids' programming to him

the most we've catered to him is getting some nature documentaries to watch with him on occasion. and we also have a hard rule of no giving him the phone or a tablet

and as long as he doesn't get upset when the tv goes off, then i'm just going to continue to not worry about it

and when he's older, i am going to have strict rules about what kids' shows he can watch because I don't want him to be overstimulated

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This has been a topic in one of my discord groups today and I’m so curious what everyone’s approach is as a writer.

Writing linearly means starting at the beginning of the story and writing each scene in chronological order from beginning to end.

Writing non-linearly means you might start midway through the story and write the beginning later, or you might write scenes at random and join them up later, or you add in placeholders as you write to go back to later (like “add action scene here”).

Outlining means coming up with a sequence of plot points to guide the story - i.e. planning/mapping out what the main story beats will be throughout it.

Personally I’m a linear writer, and I don’t outline. I have a loose idea of where the story is going to go, but that’s it. And I can’t skip scenes or use placeholder text — my brain starts shrieking at me lmao.

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If you see this you’re legally obligated to reblog and tag with the book you’re currently reading

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booktok YA n smut is one of those things where it’s rly hard to criticize it publicly for serious things like misogyny or racism or homophobia n how it enforces capitalism bc 99.9% of the backlash is ppl proclaiming the death of literature is coming bc women like to read porn. like I hate this as well but I hate it for a better reason that these ppl do.

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the stove saga continues

we can't get an electric stove to fit the cutout in the benchtop

we can't get the cutout widened because it is illegal to cut the benchtop on-site because it's engineered stone (and we could try and find someone to do it illegally but the reason it's illegal is because of the silica dust getting everywhere and we have a baby to think about so that's a no-go)

so we are now going to see if it will be cheaper to replace all the cabinets to get the height clearance for the gas stove that will fit the cutout

or we will look into replacing the benchtop completely

or we could just renovate the whole kitchen because why not just throw as much money at it as we can

we would consider just selling without fixing the stove but I think we would end up losing more money on the selling price than we'd gain by avoiding fixing it because anyone else trying to fix it would have this whole mess on their hands and why do that to yourself when you can just buy a different place

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baby boy has figured out he can interact with the cats when they're nearby so we're working on teaching him how to pet them

it'll go well for a minute and then he tries to grab their ears or tails so still a work in progress

meanwhile, the cats are uncertain about him petting them but they tolerate it

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so i decided to watch the Terrifier movies since they're free online through the library and it's fine, not really my thing but I do find what the actor is doing with Art the Clown's physicality to be really interesting

but i'm really distracted during the murders because it feels like all of them should be dead way before they actually die. is it canon that his weird evil powers are keeping them alive to prolong their torture or something?

(also, it does feel like his murders of the women in these movies are sexually violent compared to how he murders men. i hope it's at least a purposeful choice but it is certainly A Lot and i don't care for it)

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it's not practical, but at this point, i just want to gut the entire kitchen and re-do it, including pulling up the carpet in the kitchen area because whoever designed this place is a fucking idiot

and we have sink problems as well because someone did a DIY on the plumbing and now no plumber will touch it without ripping it out

turns out that the guy we thought would cut our counter for a new stove no longer does that

so now we are back to square one because gas is the fucking worst and the biggest fucking scam sold to homeowners

anyway, we're looking at either getting all of our cabinets renovated now or converting to electric so we can install an induction stove that does not have stupid height requirements to accommodate a fucking open flame in our kitchen

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turns out that the guy we thought would cut our counter for a new stove no longer does that

so now we are back to square one because gas is the fucking worst and the biggest fucking scam sold to homeowners

anyway, we're looking at either getting all of our cabinets renovated now or converting to electric so we can install an induction stove that does not have stupid height requirements to accommodate a fucking open flame in our kitchen

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the fact that people are still arguing over if gale killed prim...when the entire point is that it did not matter if gale killed prim because he openly advocated for the deaths of hundreds of little girls just like prim on the 'other side' and katniss could no longer see those prims as separate from her prim...and the bombs from 13 stole prim from katniss as brutally and absolutely as the sadism of the capitol would have because they were founded in the same desires for revenge and propangada

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the more mother-in-law tries to insert herself into our future plans to buy a house, the more stressed I get about the whole idea of even buying anything

I still hate that she was involved without my knowledge at the time in purchasing our apartment

and the more she pushes to take care of baby boy when we're both at work, the more I want to tell her she just can't see him at all

just, god, let us be fucking adults

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love when the plumbing & air-con company we call about the bad work they did on our tap tells us that they didn't actually do that work

like, either one of their employees is doing shitty work on the side and pretending like he's representing the company or their record-keeping is terrible

anyway, after they fix the mess they made, we are never using them again because what the actual fuck

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Here’s something I’m curious about.

Picture this. You’re reading a book, a standard book divided into chapters. Let’s say it’s fiction (don’t know if nonfiction would get different results). You’ve been reading for a while and you want to stop for now. Assume you are not literally falling asleep, you’re still awake and lucid.

You are in the middle of a paragraph, in the middle of a page, somewhere in the middle of a chapter in the middle of the book.

“Power through and finish the book” is not an option, but if you really do that you have my sympathies.

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trying to figure out how to resolve the desire I have to be in school without, you know, going back to school

I'm sure feeling this way more strongly has to do with me not working at the moment, but the desire still comes up when I do work so it's not just that

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Clean = not dirty or dusty

Tidy = uncluttered, things in their proper places

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